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Elsa Triolet (Ella Kagan) - biography
Elsa Yur'evna Triolet (September 12 (or September 24) 1896 - June 16, 1970) was a French writer.
Born Ella Kagan (Russian: Элла Каган) into a Jewish family of a lawyer and a music teacher in Moscow, she and her sister, Lilya Brik received excellent educations; they were able to speak fluent German and French and play the piano. Elsa graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture.
Elsa enjoyed poetry and in 1915 befriended the aspiring futurist poet and graphic artist Vladimir Mayakovsky. When she invited him home, the poet fell madly in love with her older sister Lilya, who was married to Osip Brik. Elsa was the first to translate Mayakovsky's poetry (as well as volumes of other Russian-language poetry) to French.
In 1918, at the outset of Russian Civil War, Elsa married the French cavalry officer André Triolet and emigrated to France, but for years in her letters to Lilya Elsa admitted to being heartbroken. Later she divorced Triolet.
In the early 1920s, Elsa described her visit to Tahiti in her letters to Victor Shklovsky, who subsequently showed them to Maxim Gorky. Gorky suggested that the author should consider a literary career. The 1925 book In Tahiti, written in Russian, was based on these letters.
In 1928 Elsa met French writer Louis Aragon. They married and stayed together for 42 years. She influenced Aragon to join the French Communist Party. Triolet and Aragon fought in the French anti-fascist resistance movement.
In 1944 Triolet was the first woman to be awarded the Prix Goncourt. She died, aged 73, in Moulin de Villeneuve, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France of a heart attack.
In 2010, La Poste, the French post office, issued three stamps honoring Triolet.
На Таити (In Tahiti, in Russian, 1925)
Fraise des bois (in Russian, 1926)
Camouflage (in Russian, 1928)
Bonsoir Thérèse (Good Evening, Theresa - her first book in French, 1938)
Mille regrets (1942)
Le Cheval blanc (The White Horse, 1943)
Qui est cet étranger qui n'est pas d'ici ? ou le mythe de la Baronne Mélanie (1944)
Le Premier accroc coûte deux cents francs (A Fine of 200 Francs, 1945, Prix Goncourt 1944)
Personne ne m'aime (Nobody Loves Me, 1946)
Les Fantômes armés (The Phantom Armies, 1947)
L'Inspecteur des ruines (The Inspector of Ruins, 1948)
Le Cheval roux ou les intentions humaines (1953)
L'Histoire d'Anton Tchekov (1954)
Le Rendez-vous des étrangers (1956)
Le Monument (1957)
Roses à crédit (1959)
Luna-Park (1960)
Les Manigances (1961)
L'Âme (1962)
Le Grand jamais (1965)
Écoutez-voir (1968)
La Mise en mots (1969)
Le Rossignol se tait à l'aube (1970)
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Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin relinquish control of Alphabet to CEO Sundar Pichai
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who have mostly stayed out of the spotlight since restructuring their company four years ago, are relinquishing control of parent company Alphabet to current Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the duo announced today in a joint press release. The two men will remain employees of Alphabet and retain their seats on the board, but they will no longer oversee the company's sprawling, almost trillion-dollar empire they created while at Stanford University more than 20 years ago.
"With Alphabet now well-established, and Google and the Other Bets operating effectively as independent companies, it's the natural time to simplify our management structure. We've never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there's a better way to run the company. And Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a President. Going forward, Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet," Page and Brin wrote.
"We've never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there's a better way to run the company."
"He will be the executive responsible and accountable for leading Google, and managing Alphabet's investment in our portfolio of Other Bets. We are deeply committed to Google and Alphabet for the long term, and will remain actively involved as Board members, shareholders and co-founders. In addition, we plan to continue talking with Sundar regularly, especially on topics we're passionate about."
The news, while a shocking development for the course of Google's future, is not surprising to those who have followed Page and Brin's careers since 2015. The duo have rarely made public appearances, spoken on investor calls, or shown their faces at product launches or the company's annual I/O developer conference. Brin, who once sky dived into I/O wearing a prototype pair of the now-defunct Google Glass, was often a showy futurism-loving face of the company's more experimental efforts, while Page — the acting CEO of Google until Pichai took over — was the overall executive face. Both effectively disappeared from public view, however, after the company was restructured.
The creation of Alphabet was controversial in 2015, marking an unprecedented new corporate structure for Silicon Valley at a time when the tech giants were amassing huge power and consolidating industries. Alphabet was designed to split Google into its main business, which includes its search engine and nearly a dozen other massive products, and the other disparate arms of the company, like its X lab (formerly the Moonshot factory Google X) and now its self-driving unit Waymo.
But the creation of Alphabet also gave Page and Brin carte blanche to fade from the limelight and let Pichai take the reins. Page has since become involved in electric aircraft companies like California-based Kitty Hawk, while Brin has mostly stayed out of the headlines save a rare public appearance at San Francisco International Airport in early 2017 to protest President Donald Trump's early-term immigration-related executive order.
2. Larry and Sergey have essentially gone AWOL anyway as their myriad of other interests have diverged from running the business that allowed them to have a myriad of interests.
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) December 3, 2019
Pichai has gone on to grow Google into an even larger facet of daily online life, overseeing the launch of the Pixel brand and Google's other hardware efforts in addition to the company's immense investments in artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Since the creation of Alphabet, the company's stock price has more than doubled, as has the company's revenue. In its first quarterly earnings report since Alphabet's formation, the company reported sales of $18.7 billion. In its most recent quarterly earnings report, Alphabet reported sales of more than $36.3 billion.
But Page and Brin also handed the CEO title to Pichai at a time of increasing scrutiny of Big Tech, and Google and its YouTube subsidiary have faced a severe series of controversies since the company's co-founders stepped back. Similar to fellow Big Tech companies Amazon and Facebook, the last four years have been arguably the most contentious in Google's history as an activist coalition of employees have arisen within the company to fight for change and lawmakers, activists, and regulators have sought to check Google's power from the outside.
As a result, Pichai has become the face of the company's efforts to weather those storms, including high-profile incidents like the firing of diversity critic James Damore and, more recently, the company's involvement in a Department of Defense drone project and its plans (now reportedly on ice) to launch a search product for the Chinese market. Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki have also had to answer for the video platform's own set of controversies, ranging from child exploitation and radicalization content running wild on the platform to moderation and speech issues over who gets to stay on YouTube and to what effect. In Europe and in the US, Google has been the subject of antitrust investigation, some of which remain ongoing, and faced numerous multi-billion dollar fines for anticompetitive practices over the last four years.
Google and CEO Sundar Pichai have come under unprecedented scrutiny since Page and Brin stepped back
Yet perhaps most pressing for Google leadership right now is the company's past and current handling of sexual harassment and labor activism. After news broke that both Page and Brin oversaw the approval of a $90 million exit package for disgraced Android co-founder Andy Rubin, who was accused of alleged sexual misconduct by a former employee, employees organized what was at the time the largest internal protest the company had ever seen, called the Google Walkout and involving more than 20,000 employees worldwide.
Since then, Google leadership have been accused of retaliating against the organizers of that walkout, as well as other protest actions. Google now faces a lawsuit over the firing of several employees who helped organize those actions, as well as an internal investigation into its handling of sexual harassment and assault claims.
It's unclear how involved Page or Brin will be outside the occasional conversation with Pichai, or whether the duo will have any influence at all on how the company handles its various lawsuits, regulatory concerns, and internal company strife. It's also unclear what the two co-founders will do with their immense wealth. Both men have a combined net worth of more than $100 billion when factoring in Alphabet stock, and neither have hinted at any form of philanthropy or at the possible founding of non-profits or other charitable giving.
Notable to me that in their farewell letter, Larry and Sergey say zero about what they're going to do with their time/money beyond "talking with Sundar regularly."
These are two of the wealthiest people in the country. They are very private people, but scrutiny will find them.
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"We are deeply humbled to have seen a small research project develop into a source of knowledge and empowerment for billions — a bet we made as two Stanford students that led to a multitude of other technology bets," the duo write in conclusion in their farewell letter announcing their departure. "We could not have imagined, back in 1998 when we moved our servers from a dorm room to a garage, the journey that would follow."
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COVID-19 update: Trump issues Telehealth Executive Order
By Yvonne Puig US, Daphne Calderon US & Jeff Wurzburg US
President Trump issued an Executive Order on August 3, 2020 that will continue the momentum for telehealth in rural areas. The Executive Order seeks to assist rural hospitals, highlighting that since 2010, 129 rural hospitals in the United States have closed and that "[f]rom 2015 to 2017, the average occupancy rate of a hospital that closed was only 22 percent." However, being located in a Medicaid expansion state decreases the likelihood of a rural hospital closing. The Executive Order also cites to the significant increase in telehealth visits since the beginning of the pandemic. In the final week of April CMS covered 1.7 million telehealth visits compared to 14,000 consultations prior to the pandemic. The Executive Order instructs:
The Secretary of Health and Human Services ("HHS") to announce a new model under the Affordable Care Act's authority "to test innovative payment mechanisms in order to ensure that rural healthcare providers are able to provide the necessary level and quality of care";
The Secretaries of HHS and Agriculture, "consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations", to develop and implement a strategy to improve the physical and communications healthcare infrastructure in rural America;
The Secretary of HHS to submit a report to President Trump within 30 days regarding existing and upcoming policy initiatives addressing:
Increase rural access to healthcare by eliminating regulatory burdens that limit the availability of clinical professionals;
Prevent disease and mortality by developing rural specific efforts to drive improved health outcomes;
Reduce maternal mortality and morbidity; and
Improve mental health in rural communities.
The Secretary of HHS to review the telehealth services offered to Medicare beneficiaries and the flexibilities issued to providers in rural areas during the PHE and to propose within 60 days a regulation extending the measures, as appropriate.
Also on August 3, 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law Senate Bill S8835 that clarifies the liability protections for health care professionals and facilities provided in the Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act ("EDTPA") passed on April 6, 2020. The EDTPA provided "immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, for any harm or damages alleged to have been sustained because of an act or omission while arranging for or providing healthcare services". The law does not provide immunity where harm is the result of "an act or omission constituting willful or intentional criminal misconduct, gross negligence, reckless misconduct, or intentional infliction of harm," The amendments in Senate Bill S8835 defines "health care services" to mean (a) the diagnosis or treatment of COVID-19; or (b) the assessment or care of an individual as it relates to COVID-19, when such individual has a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19. They also modify the law to provide immunity from liability only where the health care facility or health care professional is providing actual health care services in accordance with applicable law or where appropriate pursuant to a COVID-19 emergency rule. The changes apply prospectively.
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Join the Egnater Amplification Owner's Club — You don't have to be famous to become an Egnater Tone Partner!
Whether you are in a working band, or just love to jam in your garage, join our Owners Club to showcase your love of tone! It's free to join, all you need to do is complete the above submission form, attach a picture of yourself, your band or your Egnater equipment (preferably with you and your amp!) and send it in. We will post your bio and pictures here. Please include your thoughts about your Egnater equipment and we'll share it with the world.
About You / Your Band: Together four years playing original Blues and reworked Classic Blues. Robbie King has preformed with artists such Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Neel of the Allman Brothers, Coco Montoya, Eric Gales, Robin Ford and Mike Landau ect.
My Egnater: Rebel 20 has preformed flawlessly for the past three years. My last CD featured the Rebel 20 exclusively. Tone is paramount, I consider the Rebel 20 to be one of best sounding amps I currently own!
Egnater Equipment: I'm running a '72 RI fender tele deluxe straight into my Egnater Renegade 212, then out of the fxloop in a line6 M13 controlled by 2 ex1s.
About You / Your Band: I've been playing guitar for about 5/6 years. Started playing Acoustic guitar for the youth worship band and moved on to play electric as well as bass in 5 other teams in and out over the past few years and 2 consistently. Some of the teams have a more rock feel where others are more laid back, some even have r&b, jazz and blues elements In them.
My Egnater: My Egnater is awesome. I was on the search for a great amp with great tone as every guitar player is. At the time I didn't own an amp so I desperately needed one having grown tired of using other peoples gear. I was asked to play for a conference in Exeter ON. So i rented the amp i currently own and fell in love. I was initially looking at getting the tourmaster but the renegade suits my needs without the bulk. I Totally love the flexibility and what it can accomplish tonally. It provides the many tones I need for all the different teams that I play on. It also looks great, the black and tan look really classy. Thanks for creating an amazing brand of amps that hold to a golden standard of tone.
Egnater Equipment: Owned Tourmaster head for over three years, bought later Renegade 1-12 combo and now Armageddon so I own three Egnaters now.
Egnater Equipment: Tweaker-88 + 2x12 cab.
About You / Your Band: No covers all original music. Hard rock with a touch of prog thrown in. My main influences are Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Alex Lifeson, Jimmy Page, David Gilmore, Tony Iommi, Dime, Ty Tabor and Steve Morse.
My Egnater: Love the 88. Great tone loud as hell and can play any style i want it too. Yes even metal. The 2x12 cab sounds amazing.
About You / Your Band: I've been playing since the 70's, my best rig was my Les Paul thru a Mesa mark IV tho I had to let the Mesa go one very broke Christmas some years back, never thought I'd get my tone back but now I have! Thanks Bruce !!
My Egnater: This may not be the last amp I ever buy, but Egnater might just be the last brand I ever go to. Perfect cleans and a gain channel control that actually works, from Gary Moore blues crunch to Slash, BEFORE I start adding pedals, now that my friend, is class with a capital 'C'. No it doesn't have a aux in for MP3s or a headphone socket, or tuner or a can opener, and it's a better product for it, it does what it says on the tin that it can't open :) in short...a proper amp, exactly what I wanted.
My Egnater: I've been on a quest searching for a sound different than all the rest so i plugged in to a tweaker 15 combo and my search was over i fell in love then i tried the COMBO 40 and bought it on the spot this is the sound for me not really fender not same like vox not exactly marshall JUST 100% EGNATER LUSHNESS!!!!!!!
My Egnater: Love my Egnaters! every tone i could want from clean to mean...well done! time for and endorsement!!
Egnater Equipment: Egnater Tweaker 88 with a Boss ME-50, Gibson Les Paul Studio, PRS Singlecut, and Fender Strat.
About You / Your Band: We're a 5 piece pop-punk band out of Southern California. We write melodically driven, hook heavy pop punk songs that will get you up and dancing and singing along. We're currently working on our debut album, and looking forward to seeing all of you at a show really soon. I've been playing guitar for about 10 years now, from acoustic to metal to pop. Music is a huge part of my life, and I don't know what I would do without it.
My Egnater: I bought my Tweaker 88 in December and fell in love with it immediately. The range of tone it gives me, the amount of gain I get from it, to the clarity of it is unlike anything I've used before. I also love the classy look of the tweed and black too.
About You / Your Band: The triple guitar 'wall of sound' was one of The Deceived's signatures, their shimmering clean and haunting tones were also something that gave the band it's own voice. Now with Accidents, the trio are stripping back their sound to give a more textured, ethereal flavour to their sound.
My Egnater: The most versatile sounding and robust amps we have ever played. Endless sonic capabilities and classic looks: enough said.
About You / Your Band: Amateur Band fronted by 3 Physicians do lots of charities and gig whenever we get the chance.
My Egnater: My Rebel 30 is awesome!!!! Here I am (on the far right) with my Strat playing with Albert Besteiro of Del Castillo and my Band Mate Dr.No (Noe Oliveira MD) when we opened for Del Castillo this last February.
About You / Your Band: As a player I prefer blues and classic rock. My most important influences are Jimmy Page, Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray Vaughan, David Gilmore, Slash and Clapton.
My Egnater: I teach English, religion and guitar. I need this amp in various situations and for very different styles. I needed an amp that can do almost anything: from pristine clean, crunchy and some higher gain for soloing. This Tweaker is able to do all of that!
also the Rebell 30 need no Microfon..because The balanced Output to the Mixer..
Egnater Equipment: 2 Rebel 20's half stacks.
About You / Your Band: 3 piece classic boogie band that also produces original music.
My Egnater: I Love the 2 Rebel 20's , this is the perfect set up for any size venue. I Have searched for years for this sound from an AMP ! I have found My Sound! All of my recordings the past 2 years have been done with my Rebel's plus the rave reviews I get when we play out, people can not believe the tone coming from the Rebel 20. I saw the lead player form Cavo using these and checked them out and bought 2!
My Egnater: I was in the market for a tube amp about the same time that the Rebel 20 started to get a lot of good press. I went to my local Guitar Center and plugged in my LP to give it a whirl. Love at note! The rest is history. I own 5 guitar amps, and the Rebel is one of my favorites.
About You / Your Band: I played many of show all around southern Ohio and even some in northern Ohio. I'm now playing of my church worship team.
My Egnater: My Tourmaster is the best! People have told me that my Egnater is the best sounding amp live they have ever heard. One of those people were super producer Tyler Smyth from the band formally Let's Get It, and he uses and Orange if that tells you anything!!! My Egnater has never let me done and I am completely excited to pull it out of its case every time I am going to play it!
About You / Your Band: I've been playing guitar for around 9 years, street fist has been around for about 4 tho we really didn't start taking it seriously until about two ears ago. I met the other guitar player and bass player through my girlfriend who plays drums in the band. I say take it seriously but our only goal is to have fun.
My Egnater: I FREAKING LOVE IT!! It gives you everything you need to play any type of music, its only limited by is your own imagination. Play it through a 4x12 and you will have enough volume to play any size venue. The only problem I've had with it was the chrome screw cap on the input jack kinda striped its self out on the plastic face plate but fixed it with a lock tight that dries into a rubber like consistency. I am too young to say it will be my last amp, but, I don't see myself ever getting rid of it or even knowing what I would ever replace it with. Maybe one day I'll join an metal band and need something with way too much gain.
Keep up the good work Bruce and team!
About You / Your Band: Dead Star Renegade was born in The Basement of Melbourne's iconic Esplanade Hotel on 20.08.2009. We released our first Single 'Tommy Gun' in Nov. of 2010 and in March of 2011 followed that up with our debut album 'Blackwing'.
"Dead Star Renegade have launched their sterling debut effort, Blackwing, an album that boasts all the essential ingredients required for a classic hard-rock album, without sounding like it's well and truly past its used by date...They're the kind of quality act where success isn't so much a matter of if, but only when. "
With a steadily growing base of loyal supporters both locally and internationally 2012 promises to be a big one for the band with tours of both India and Northern Europe in the wings as well as a host of Local, Interstate and Regional shows. There is also an Acoustic E.P. looming early in the year along with the band's first official Music Video.
In a sea of tired classic rock clones Dead Star Renegade is taking Rock and Roll by the throat and smacking it right into the here and now.
My Egnater: Love my Egnater gear!


Patrick Starrr gets real while taking off his makeup.
The YouTuber chatted with ET for our Unfiltered series, opening up about his teenage years, how he started his channel and facing his biggest insecurity head-on.
Starrr has amassed a huge following of 4.2 million subscribers and 4.7 million followers on Instagram. His signature turban, larger-than-life personality and ultra-glam makeup make him one of the most recognizable faces in the beauty community. Before the fame, Starrr grew up in Florida in a small Filipino household. His love for makeup began as a child as he became enamored by all the transformations he saw on Disney movies, America's Next Top Model and beauty pageants.
His fascination became a side gig as he started to do hair and makeup for girls at his high school for dances and events, which helped him gain confidence when he often felt the opposite growing up.
"So when I was a freshman I was asked by seniors to do their homecoming hair or their prom hair or their makeup," he says. "I feel like that's when I sort of felt a little bit of confidence because trust is a big thing now in people and friends, and my peers in school were asking me to help them on such a big day like prom or homecoming or their sweet 16 or their quinceañera. It really instilled confidence in me that they trusted me."
In addition to doing photography, Starrr soon landed at a MAC counter where he worked as a freelance artist. He craved an outlet where he could consistently express his passion and skills for makeup, which led him to start his YouTube channel in 2013.
For his first video, Starrr created the classic winged eye-and-red lip combo which caught the eye of Talia Joy Castellano, the late YouTuber and CoverGirl who died from cancer at age 13.
"We became friends on Instagram and we met once," he recalls. "She had passed away and when everyone had sent her condolences to her, one of the videos that she had last liked on her activity feed was my video and when Ellen DeGeneres and YouTube rewind and all of these YouTubers in the community were sending their condolences, they would see my video there."
Castellano constantly expressed that makeup was her wig, which rang true for Starrr as well.
"Talia said makeup is my wig and till this day makeup is my wig too," Starrr says. "And, well, I have my turban on every day but I think it's just ever since I started up until now, vulnerability and being open is something that I have learned and have kept early on as a theme in my career."
Starrr's channel and following grew immensely and he began to work with the biggest beauty brands, collaborating on videos with fellow YouTubers and celebs, launching five collections with MAC and finding his way on red carpets and the runway. Most recently, he fiercely walked in a fashion show as Ursula from The Little Mermaid for The Blond's collaboration with Disney Villains during New York Fashion Week in September, for which he shaved his head so the icy finger-wave 'do could stay put.
"I was, like, just shave it and just knowing what was guaranteed to happen to me walking down the runway wasn't going to change anything about my hair," he says. "And I think that was just such a pinnacle moment for me changing my hair. I was like, you know, let's just shave it and do it, and Shalom Blac was front and center at that fashion show and she didn't even know I shaved my head that day and two months later we were doing our video together being bald beauties."
In the video, he puts his new bald head on display for the first time after struggling with hair loss from age 17. But he's not ditching the turban anytime soon.
"I think at this moment I haven't found the confidence to go without a turban," Starrr shares. "Also, I feel like it's kind of like my cape and kind of like Mickey Mouse ears to the beauty community. So you see the three rolls, right? You see the first roll, the head, then the belly that's Patrick Starrr and Patrick Starrr is coming to town. He's in the room. You see the little snowman silhouette that's P Starrr and also it's branding for me -- it's my staple. It's been in all of my MAC campaigns and multiple beauty campaigns on commercial and TV, so it's kind of a part of me."
Starrr's followers look to him for empowerment to be their true self, but with such an expansive following comes haters.
"A lot of people were finding refuge on my channel like women of color or older women, older men, younger boys, younger girls, siblings, kids that haven't even come out to their own family yet," he notes. "I said if they're going to come and look at my comments and look at my content, I want to make sure that it's a safe space for them and not a space that they're afraid to engage in, so I made sure I would block words, block hateful words, hateful comments, hateful people and I think that's what made my Patrick Starrr social media -- my YouTube, my Instagram, my Snapchat, my Twitter -- such a safe place for people to just be entertained and for me to be their gay best friend."
So what's the biggest advice Starrr has for his fans on persevering through negativity?
"You deserve to be on this earth. You have a purpose and like a flower you have to push through dirt before you blossom," he shares. "There's a quote from Dolly Parton, 'You can't have a rainbow without rain,' so just know that tomorrow or the next day or the day after is going to be a better day because there's nowhere to go but up."


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Carley was presentedwith her winning cheque by Professor John G Hughes.Carley Williams a student studying Product Design with Qualified Teacher Status will represent Bangor University in the UK round of the Santander Entrepreneurship Awards, having won Bangor University's Competition. She will be joined by winning postgraduate student Hernan Diazgranados in the national competition later this year.
Both students are through to the final round having successfully 'pitched' their business ideas to a panel of judges, including the University's Vice-Chancellor Professor John G. Hughes, recently. Having been tasked by the B-Enterprising team in the Careers & Employability Service to come up with an innovative business idea, the shortlisted project ideas presented covered a wide range of products and subjects, and included costings and marketing ideas.
Following presentations by the shortlisted applicants, the judges awarded top prizes of £200 each to the best undergraduate and postgraduate students.
In announcing Carley Williams as undergraduate winner, Vice-Chancellor Professor John G. Hughes said that the judges had been impressed by the fantastic amount of work that she had done, which was indicative of the standard of work by the students on the University's product design course in general. Carley Williams' idea stood out as the most outstanding however, and it had fantastic market potential.
Carley Williams, who comes from Builth Wells and is 20, designed a protector for use by children who have a 'peg' or feeding (percutaneous endoscopic gastronomy) tube inserted into their stomachs. Carley's device prevents young children from removing their 'peg' and is a great solution to a current problem.
Carley was surprised at her success and will now consider how to develop her project further and consider which course to take; either developing her product further or pursuing a career in teaching.
Having received his cheque, Hernan was congratulated by the Judging Panel.The judges considered Hernan Diazgranados' idea a well-presented, exciting and viable project.
Hernan, who comes from Barranquilla, Colombia, has already invested in commercial development of his music-streaming application for the mobile environment, which provides some additional unique features.
Hernan, has had an idea to develop a music-based 'app' for a while, but says the current idea came to him in a 'bolt of inspiration'. He is at Bangor University studying an MSc degree in International Media Management, is confident in the success of his business idea, and is keen to source more funding and partners to develop the project further.
He won a Scholarship to study at Bangor, and during his time here has been involved in another entrepreneurship project at the University: Enterprise by Design, a programme which creates teams comprised of students from different disciplines, who share their knowledge to provide a practical solution which addresses a real-life business scenario. Hernan found this to be a very rewarding experience where he learnt a lot about facilitation and team work.
All the competitors and judges posed for photos at the end of a fascinating afternoon of 'pitching'.The judging panel comprised Professor John G. Hughes, Vice-Chancellor; Chris Walker, Director of People Systems International and a University entrepreneurship mentor and Diane Roberts of Santander Universities.
The Final Round of the Santander Entrepreneurship Competition takes place in Triton Square, London on 1 July 2015.
The Bangor University stage of the Santander Entrepreneurial Awards is part-funded by the North-West Wales Regional Hub, which is one of six regional hubs established by the Welsh Government to drive its commitment to encourage youth entrepreneurship in Wales.


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Evans, Georgia (03/20/19) – Ahnna Parkhurst's weekend may have started with a speed bump, but it ended on a high note. After experiencing bad luck on Friday night at Lancaster Speedway, Parkhurst bounced back to record a pair of runner-up finishes on Saturday and Sunday in her LauriesFund.org #23 Richard Childress Racing Crate Late Model.
Friday night found Ahnna Parkhurst in action at Lancaster Speedway (Lancaster, South Carolina), where she was competing in a SECA Crate Late Model event. After starting 11th on the grid, Ahnna was collected by a spinning car in the feature. The ensuing damage ended her night. She was credited with a 10th-place finish.
The following night at Dixie Speedway (Woodstock, Georgia), Ahnna qualified fourth fastest in a field of 24 cars, which locked her into the fourth-starting position for the A-Main. After crossing the line in third, Parkhurst was promoted to a second-place finish after the leader was disqualified. She trailed only Matthew Turner in the final rundown with Don Jenkins, Payton Freeman, and Jake Rainey completing the Top-5 finishers.
On Sunday afternoon at Talladega Short Track (Eastaboga, Alabama), Parkhurst gained four positions in her heat to place third. Starting the main event in sixth, Ahnna worked her way into a podium spot early and challenged for the lead in the closing laps. Despite her best efforts, Parkhurst came up just short at the line. She registered a runner-up finish behind Sam Seawright with Victory Turner, Travis Smith, and Mike Combs trailing them to the checkers.
For full results from these events, please visit www.LancasterSuperSpeedway.com , www.DixieSpeedway.com , and www.TalladegaShortTrack.com .
This weekend – March 23-24 – will find Ahnna entering a pair of races in Georgia and South Carolina. On Saturday night, she'll be racing at Cochran Motor Speedway (Cochran, Georgia), while she'll be competing at Cherokee Speedway (Gaffney, South Carolina) on Sunday.
For more information on the events, please visit www.CochranSpeedway.com and www.CherokeeSpeedwaySC.com .
Ahnna Parkhurst would like to thank her marketing partners, which include Andy's Frozen Custard, John Morley & Morley Company, F&W Transportation, Kevin Harvick Inc., Morton Builders, Klotz Lubricants, Schoenfeld Headers, Malvern Bank, Hoosier Racing Tire South, LauriesFund.org, Richard Childress Racing, Sparco, GW Performance, Arai Helmets, Allstar Performance, Shane McDowell Racing, Cushman Paint & Body, Will Kinzer Foundation for Autism, Racing Optics, FK Rod Ends, Max Papis Innovations, Fields Inc. and MSRMafia.com Marketing Services.
For the latest information on Ahnna Parkhurst, please visit www.AhnnaParkhurst.com as well as her social media channels at www.Facebook.com/AhnnaParkhurstRacing and www.Twitter.com/AhnnaParkhurst .


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April 5, 2018 April 10, 2018
Fan-Favorite Character Blue Mary Joins the King of Fighters XIV Roster
Play Fan-Favorite Character Blue Mary Joins the King of Fighters XIV Roster Video
Yasuyuki Oda talks about rebuilding the fan-favorite fighter in KOF XIV's 3D engine.
Yasuyuki Oda	Chief Producer, SNK Corporation
Hey KOF XIV fans,
We have some really big news for you today! As most of you may already know, we have a big Ver. 3.00 update releasing for KOF XIV in the coming days, which includes four new DLC characters.
Today, I am pleased to announce that the final DLC character to be added in Ver 3.00 is Blue Mary! She was one of the most requested characters by fans, and will now be playable in KOF XIV!
For the uninitiated, Blue Mary is a veteran of both the Fatal Fury and KOF series. I was involved in her creation when she made her original debut in Fatal Fury 3, and she quickly became one of the most popular characters from that series. Her popularity meant that she was also selected to make her KOF debut a couple of years later in KOF '97, after Japanese fans voted for her via gaming magazines. A total of three characters were chosen that way to form the '97 Special Team, and now that same team can be re-created in KOF XIV!
'97 Special Team
Blue Mary has always had a very unique fighting style, with moves that are based on the Soviet martial art, Sambo. Her move set includes a lot of grapple moves and as you can see in the trailer, we worked very hard to faithfully recreate all of those bone crunching attacks in KOF XIV! Blue Mary has always been a challenge to design as a result of how complex her grapple moves are to animate. Back in the day, when we were designing her for Fatal Fury 3, not many people on the team knew much information about Sambo. At one point, one of the designers working on Blue Mary, Youichiro Soeda, actually used me as a training dummy to show off some of the attacks he had in mind to the rest of the team. Just watching this new trailer of hers, I think I can feel my neck hurt a bit…
We got to have a lot of fun while creating Blue Mary for KOF XIV thanks to the new engine. It was always difficult to put an emphasis on her grappling moves when they were created with 2D sprites, but with KOF XIV we were able to use the 3D camera and go crazy with the cinematic shots for her flashier moves, which meshed really well with her unique fighting style.
Blue Mary is the last DLC character to be announced for this update, and we have previously announced 3 more additions to the roster!! Feel free to check out the previously released trailers below for more info! The new Ver. 3.00 Update will also include character balance adjustments, which we know the fans have been waiting for!
These characters will be available for purchase when the Ver. 3.00 Update goes live on April 12th, 2018!
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gohan16ken
April 5, 2018 at 8:22 am PDT
Dear SNK
1) Why are the release of the ACA NeoGeo games for the PS4 in the US lagging behind the XB1 and PS4 in Japan and Europe? There are several ACA NeoGeo that the PS4 in the US did not get but was released on the XB1 and PS4 in Japan and Europe. What is the cause of the delay?
2) Please create a KOF anniversary collection similar to SF 30th Anniversary collection.
NeoKurow
What is the price of the characters?
BlueberryBark
Can't wait!!! So exciting to have all the Ikari Warriors back in one game and now the 97 team is back in action, too! Thanks SNK!
THE_ENDGAME_BOSS
April 5, 2018 at 10:33 am PDT
You guys f'ing ROCK this generation!!! Thank you SNK!! Also more DLC and I'll keep buying!!!
KoF XIV is easily one if the best games and to me he best KoF ever!
ricky_uzumaky
April 5, 2018 at 1:20 pm PDT
Fantástico y cuánto costará el pack 2 dónde viene blue Mary
Alucard-XII
I noticed some improvements in Geese's stage. Some stages need similar tweaks, especially the the NeoGeo Land, the aquarium, and the stadium stages.
Thanks for the new content. I've liked all the additions so far (including last year's update). Can't wait to play ver. 3
April 6, 2018 at 11:57 pm PDT
Nice one SNK…loving the support you guys are giving to the game.Keep up the great work.
gtkof
April 10, 2018 at 3:24 am PDT
KOF 97 Global Match was announced for a Thursday release also, but ended up coming out with all the other releases that week on Tuesday when the Store updated.
Is that the same case here and there's just a date mix-up?
Thrill_Kill
April 14, 2018 at 12:11 am PDT
I love SNK, and I have EVERY single AES release, and MVS release, and NeoCD release ever made basically. I spent about $100k on the AES ALONE the past few years, just to get back what was sold in the 90's. That being said, I supported SNK on the PS3, just to find out that SNK NEVER planned to release ALL the games on that platform. Money WASTED, and the online lagged so BAD it was unplayable, and my internet is the best in California, so there is no excuse.
Lastly, I want to support SNK so much, but I have a difficult time doing so when they waste their time making this 3D junk. SNK, get back to the basics, and produce for us the games that we WANT from you, not just what you want to give us. Most fans of SNK don't CARE about Playmore games, and we don't CARE for the 3D "Maximum Impact" stuff. All we want are 100% TRUE sequels of games we love and grew up playing, in 2D! If you cannot make the games that you used to, you might as well just sell your IP's to CAPCOM, and have them make 3D crap. It's that simple.
Oh, and SNK, if you EVER wish to make your fans really happy, do us ALL a favor and Re-Release the AES carts that have such INSANE price tags, so people can have a fair shot at getting certain English AES releases like Metal Slug series, Garou, Real Bout 2, and anything else made in 1995 moving forward that had inconsistent releases. Also, releasing games like PULSTAR and Blazing Star in ENGLISH format on the AES would gain you a TON of sales.
This is just MY opinion, but I think you can STILL make games on the AES/MVS and then PORT them to PS4, and XBone etc..afterward and you would be able to make good money PLUS make your TRUE fanbase happy finally. Do us all a favor, make the 2D GREATS that you are known for, give us Magician Lord 2, Robo Army 2, and NAM-76 finally! Give us NEW games and Sequels we ALWAYS asked for, but never got. Last Blade 3, and Garou 2, are sorely needed! I personally am still DYING for new AES/MVS games, and even though NG:Dev Team is filling your shoes for that system, we still miss you and want you back!


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RIL inks pact with BP to supply aviation fuel, run retail outlets
The Reliance Industries (RIL) and British oil and gas company BP will form a new joint venture (JV) company to run retail fuel stations and supply aviation fuel. While RIL will hold 51 percent, BP will hold the rest in the JV that will assume ownership of RIL's existing fuel retail network of over 1,400 outlets.
The JV will also get access to RIL's aviation fuel business currently operating at over 30 airports across India.
The JV partners aim to grow the fuel retail outlets to up to 5,500 sites over the next five years. In 2019, the Adani Group announced a JV with French oil and gas company Total to run LNG regasification terminals and retail fuel stations across India. It is anticipated that the final agreements will be signed during 2019, and subject to regulatory and other approvals, the transaction will be completed in the first half of 2020.
The JV expands the partnership between the two firms that began in 2011 when BP acquired a 30 percent interest in RIL's portfolio of exploration and production interests offshore India, including the KG D6 gas-producing block off the east coast. BP will bring its international experience in convenience and fuel retailing and aviation operations.
Castrol lubricants will also be sold across the venture's network. It will seek to expand its reach, broadening access through mobile fuelling units and providing packaged fuels to customers, including home-delivery.
The venture is also expected to benefit from access to competitive fuel supplies from RIL's Jamnagar refining complex in Gujarat on the west coast of India. Since formation of their partnership in 2011, the two companies have invested over USD two billion in deep water exploration and production.
The partners have recently sanctioned three new developments in the KG D6 block -- the 'R-Series' fields in 2017, the Satellites cluster in 2018 and the MJ project earlier in 2019. With total investment of around USD five billion, development of the three projects together is expected produce a total of around one billion cu ft of gas a day. The first project, the R-Series development, is expected onstream in 2020.
India's refinery expansion to slash fuel oil output
Celanese signs MOU with Pertamina
Foster Wheeler receives contract from KNPC
Neste Oil to join ITAKA project
Apple to have new cell power plant
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2Dark - Upcoming Rescue The Children Survival Horror
Posted by: dark, 2016-03-18, 13:27 - 3 comments
What is more frightening than risking your own life? It's risking the lives of your children of course. So that became an important part of the gameplay. 2Dark is an infiltration game, in which you have to save children. It's a PC and XBOX horror survival game called '2Dark' coming from Gloomywood Studio this year.
2Dark is a blend of different types of gameplay. Action, adventure, infiltration and above all rescuing children. It'a a level-based adventure game. Each level is a challenge where you encounter a new serial killer, a new environment and new traps. You play as Smith who's searching for his kidnapped children. To do that you have explore the darkest corners of Gloomywood. Don't expect to make it all the way through on the first go.
See those cute kids? They're the ones you need to save. At first, they follow you quitely, but getting into a serial killer lair is already tough enough, but getting out again with 10 kids, each more scary and quivering than the last, that's another story.
2Dark is scheduled this year for Mac and Pc, and it will also be released on XBox and PS4.
Official website: http://2dark.cc/
Trash-man - Possibly New Horror meme?
The other night I watched the 4th episode of a new X-files series entitled 'Home Again'. I'm not much of a fan of the series, but this episode attracted my attention just because it featured a really cool monster, so you might want to take a look at it. It's called "Trash-man" or originally "Band-Aid Nose Man".
Why TrashMan is actually a very cool monster?
Band-aid nose man is kind of a work of art that's come to life. He is an urban legend around the streets, especially among the homeless people. The drawings of the Trashman appear and disappear randomly on the street walls. Most likely the drawing disappears from the wall when he is about to commit a murder. He is the protector of the homeless people, so his intentions might be good it's just he's been misdirected a little bit. He's just got more radical and brutal sense for justice.
Here're some cool features:
His footprints have no ridges
Samples collected from the crime scene leave no organic or inorganic materials identified
Trashman rips his victims apart like they're paper. Head usually ends up in a kitchen bin while the rest of the human parts he carefully collects and puts inside his trash compactor.
When Trashman approaches, his appearance induces electrical interferences. Lights and radio go crazy.
There's no escape from him. Guns don't work. Walls don't stop him.
He leaves big smelly trail behind as an indication of his recent presence.
As another indication of his presence you can find green sticky mucus stains filled with worms on the floor.
Trashman official trailer
Please visit relevant official pages for more information:
fox channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDiPds0v60wueil5B8w3fPQ
X-Files channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC68e6tjObt_flasCFGO9uEQ
Home Again Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKEkGBhJwNE
Fox TV: http://www.fox.com/
Watch the X-Files: http://www.fox.com/the-x-files/full-episodes
What horror games are coming in 2016?
Posted by: dark, 2016-01-07, 18:11 - 18 comments
I can't promise best 20 or top 5 before I actually try them all out. I just wanted to make a list of games that you might want to pay attention to this year (2016). Some of them are already out, other are upcoming, while some I might add to the list later on. Any proposals?
has released an early access version of their game and it picked up a huge amounts of press thanks to selection of youtubers that featured playthroughs of the game on their channel. Layers of Fear is a game that plunges a player into the unstable mind of an insane painter thirsting for inspiration for his next masterpiece. The house you play in is constantly shifting and morphing as your character is subjected to hallucinations and encounters with creepy ghouls and demon-like creatures.
The long anticipated sequel to Red Barrel psychological horror title Outlast has promised to deliver new and refined scares while staying true to the original atmosphere projected in Outlast 1. Set completely apart from the asylum we explored in the first game, we have the opportunity to get to know different characters in a completely different setting. The violence and depravity of human nature will still be a large overarching theme of the game.
Hektor - indie game (already available)
Hektor is a single player indie horror game released on steam March '13. The cool part about the game is that the walls in Hector game are not randomly generated, walls and rooms are actually altered as you play, which makes for really cool mechanic. The basic goal is to escape from wherever you are by solving pretty basic puzzles, normally involving finding an object to complete the task. This game is far more story focused than other indie horror games.
This is direct download link - didn't try it though: https://archive.org/download/Hektor_201503/Hektor-FLT.rar
4. AR Survival Horror
Night Terrors is augmented reality survival horror game and personally my favorite one (this and Alison Road ). When the demon chases you, you will run away. When the girl calls your name, you will follow. Save the girl and survive. If you don't see what happens.
"You hear the familiar click of interference. A young girl tortured in another world needs your help". According to the game developer Bryan Mitchel words, this game is trying to give an answer to a simple question: "Why are we still waiting for that really great augmented reality game? Where are those games that are so believable and so immersive that you're afraid to play them?".
Allison Road
Alison Road looks like it's paying homage to PT (Playable Teaser, Silent Hills series) while being it's own original story. It looks awesome. Even though it doesn't carry the Silent Hill name, it doesn't have to. It has the same spirit, and that is what is really important and who knows, maybe Alison Road will lead to its own franchise of scary sequels. And rather than dream and wander of what possibly could have been with the now collapsed Silent Hills, they're filling the void and we now at least will be able to play a spiritual successor and enjoy a whole new creepy gaming experience.
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FNAF 5 - Not gonna happen!
If you wandered if there's gonna be Five Nights At Freddy's 5 - the straight answer is NO!
According to the Scott Cawthon's announcement on Steam, FNAF 4 was the last game in the series. You can read the announcement here.
If you recall, the 4th game ended by posting an image on sctottgames that says THE END - Thanks for playing. That was the first signal.
Secondly, Scott announced that he's working now on a new game called "FNAF World".
As you can see from the trailer, except for the reused characters it has nothing to do with the series. This is a completely new game, an RPG where you create a party with tons of characters. So, despite promising intro, this game is not going to be a horror.
I've even seen some online petition where they ask Scott to make another sequel, but he's determined in not wanting to do it. So, don't trust the rumours and false fan-made sequels, as we should consider this story finished, and simply move on.
And what do you think? Is this just a Scott's trick to lead us to false conclusion and surprise us at some point with another instance of the game? I think - not gonna happen.
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Daily Press
Fantasy Football, Week 3: Best bench in the league
By Amber Nettles
Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."
Kinnin's Corollary: "All at the same time."
After a rousing start to my fantasy football season, for Week 2, I figured, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." So I left my lineup the same, hoping for similar results.
With the exception of Peyton Manning (of course), Joseph Addai and Tennessee's defense, my starters were horrible. Chad Ochocinco was expected to get 10.23 points and got 5.40; Ryan Mathews was projected for 13.38 and got 4.00; and John Kasay was projected for 8.66 and got 1.00.
My opponent, however, got 25.88 points out of Jay Cutler (13.63 projected) and 43.45 from Jahvid Best (10.95).
Who knew Eagles-Lions would be a shootout?
By 5 p.m. Sunday, I was toast. Final score: 116.08-68.40.
There's no other way to put it: I got smoked.
Not only that, I lost to a team named DebbieYow Wears Brut, insulting my alma mater's new AD!
In the loss, however, I accomplished two goals. I got more than half my opponent's point total, and I wasn't the lowest scorer (34.30).
And now I know this: My bench is awesome! Matt Ryan, Darren Sproles, Jerricho Cotchery, Kevin Walter and Brandon Pettigrew defied all Yahoo projections -- and logic.
Just how awesome is my bench? It combined for 79.40 points, making it the highest-scoring in Week 2.
Had I started just my bench, not only would I have beaten my starters, I would've beaten five other teams!
At 1-1, ELECTRIFIED FUNK is in seventh place, with the top eight teams making the playoffs. My Week 3 opponent (another 1-1 team) has a good squad, and I might have to deal with injuries, so maybe some of those awesome benchers will make an appearance.
Today's post is by Charles Kinnin, a Daily Press copyeditor. You can follow him on Twitter at @charleskinnin.
Joseph Addai
Jerricho Cotchery
A $16 million Kroger opens Wednesday in Hampton. Here's what to expect.


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Owner of store that sold winning Powerball ticket giving cut to charity
Posted: Aug 24, 2017 9:49 AM CST
The owner of the store that sold the lone winning Powerball ticket says he's donating the store's $50,000 prize to several local charities.
Bob Bolduc owns the Pride store chain. One of its stores, in Chicopee, Massachusetts, sold the only ticket that won the $758.7 million jackpot. It's the largest grand prize won by a single lottery ticket in U.S. history.
He says once they heard that the winning ticket was sold Wednesday afternoon, store workers looked it up on the surveillance video and believe the winner was a middle-aged woman.
Bolduc says they're happy for the customer, and happy for the charities.
The lottery says the winner still had not come forward as of midmorning Thursday.
The head of the Massachusetts State Lottery says a transcription error led the organization to wrongly identify the store that sold the lone winning Powerball ticket.
In a statement issued Thursday morning, lottery Executive Director Michael Sweeney says officials were manually recording the names of the retailers that sold the winning ticket for the $758.7 million jackpot, as well as two tickets that won $1 million prizes. He says they transcribed it incorrectly.
Sweeney issued an apology for the confusion created by the error, but said lottery staff remained thrilled that a jackpot winning ticket and two $1 million winning tickets were sold in Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts store that sold the winning Powerball ticket was initially told it sold a $1 million ticket, not the only ticket that won the $758.7 million jackpot.
Mike Donatelli, a spokesman for the Pride Station & Store in Chicopee, Massachusetts, says they were told shortly before 8 a.m. that the store had actually sold that ticket. The jackpot is the largest grand prize won by a single lottery ticket in U.S. history.
Donatelli says the founder of the chain, Bob Bolduc, plans to hold news conferences at 10 a.m. and at noon. The store is part of a chain that operates in western Massachusetts and northern Connecticut.
The Chicopee store will receive $50,000 for selling the winning ticket.
Lottery officials had initially said a different store, near Boston, had sold the winning ticket. That store actually sold a ticket that won $1 million.
8: 30 a.m.
The error by the Massachusetts State Lottery over which store sold the lone winning Powerball ticket is being blamed on nerves.
Michael Sweeney, the lottery's executive director, tells WBZ-AM they had a "couple of excited people at 1 o'clock in the morning" but said if there's any blame to be placed, the buck stops with him.
The lottery initially said a convenience store in Watertown had sold the winning ticket. A few hours later, it announced it had made a mistake, and that the winning ticket was sold across the state at the Pride Station & Store in Chicopee, in Western Massachusetts.
Sweeney says the lottery had not yet heard from the winner.
He said the Chicopee store will receive $50,000 for selling the winning ticket, he said.
He said the store in Watertown did sell a ticket that won a $1 million prize.
Massachusetts State Lottery officials have corrected the site where the single winning ticket for the Powerball $758.7 million jackpot was sold to Chicopee, not Watertown.
The Massachusetts State Lottery had announced around 2:30 a.m. Thursday that a convenience store in Watertown, near Boston, had sold the winning ticket.
But shortly before 8 a.m., the lottery said it had made a mistake, and that the winning ticket was sold across the state at the Pride Station & Store in Chicopee, in Western Massachusetts.
The lottery did not say how the error was made .
It said the store in Watertown did sell a ticket that won a $1 million prize.


Keith Fuller will answer your questions. Call 209-0430 or email kfuller@sjcfl.us.
Q. The rind on some of my oranges is brown near the top of the fruit. The oranges taste fine. What caused this?
A. Citrus rust mites were most likely the culprit.
They are microscopic and like to feed on the shoulders of the fruit where it is sunniest. The damage is simply cosmetic.
Q. I am seeing yellow lower fronds on my Queen and Date palms. What causes this?
A. Often if the palm has a magnesium deficiency the lower fronds will yellow while the younger fronds remain green.
You might try giving the palms a magnesium supplement.
Since palms go semi-dormant in cool weather, do not expect to see a major change until growth resumes in spring.


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As Libya Buries Victims, Hints of Deception
JOHN F. BURNS
TRIPOLI, Libya — As the nine pinewood coffins were laid on scrubland beside the glistening blue waters of the Mediterranean, uniformed men with Kalashnikov rifles fired volley after volley into an azure sky, and a trumpeter blew the discordant melancholy of a final farewell.
Then, in minutes, the few hundred mourners who had gathered in this city melted away into a perfect spring day, ending another funeral — this time for the victims of a Friday bombing in the eastern oil town of Brega — that had been transformed into a pageant for denouncing the NATO forces whose bombs are taking a regular toll in Libyan lives.
For the officials who shepherd the small band of foreign journalists covering the war from here to such events, seeing them as powerful propaganda tools to be used against the Western powers, the burials on Saturday provided a moment that even the most accomplished propagandists could not have written into their script.
Just before the coffins arrived, two high-flying aircraft — NATO planes, for sure, since others are banned under a United Nations-imposed no-fly zone — wrote vapor trails high above.
As one aircraft circled back to the northeast, another flew on to the southwest, toward the western mountains along the Tunisian and Algerian borders where there has been intense fighting between Libyan rebels and the forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. At the sight of each aircraft, mourners pointed in agitation to the sky, demanding that foreign TV crews capture the moment and shouting choruses of support for Colonel Qaddafi.
The moment captured the anger and futility felt by Libyans still loyal to Colonel Qaddafi as NATO aircraft pound targets in Tripoli and other government-held areas night after night, day after day, with the total of sorties flown since the air raids began now cresting 2,500.
Western defense officials have said that 40 to 50 percent of the Qaddafi forces' striking power has been degraded, and with it almost all the capability, in fighter aircraft, missiles and antiaircraft batteries, that Libya had to confront an aerial invader. So far, only one NATO plane has crashed, and that was early in the conflict, after what NATO officials said was a technical failure.
If the funeral on Saturday was planned as a moment to strike a moral blow against the West, it was only modestly successful. Other messages pressed in.
The cemetery chosen for the burials was not one of the city's most prestigious, but one set on a windblown stretch of shoreline across from a bleak highway overpass. A mile or two to the west, the idle cranes of the Tripoli port and the anchored ships stood like sentinels, testament to an oil-based economy that has been paralyzed by the war.
The 10-minute bus ride from the journalists' hotel passed by several of the long lines for fuel that are a telltale feature wherever the government still holds sway. Dwarfing the lines in Baghdad in the final months of Saddam Hussein's rule, the ones here run for miles, often four lines abreast, sometimes with more than one snaking corridor of vehicles approaching a single gas station. The waits can last days, a week even, and they have added to an air of demoralization that weighs even on officials appointed to mind foreign reporters.
Against this background, the funeral promised a powerful counterpoint, one with the potential to rally faint hearts. On Friday, officials gathered reporters at a Tripoli mosque to announce that 11 Muslim clerics had been killed in a NATO strike at Brega, 500 miles east of Tripoli, and the government's easternmost point of control. The officials said 45 others had been wounded in the bombing of a former oil company guesthouse, and gave the platform to a cleric who called for the dead to be avenged in terrorist attacks against the West.
Earlier in the week, the propaganda apparatus had been focused on a gathering of tribal leaders in support of Colonel Qaddafi. Now, the deaths of the imams appeared to lay the ground for marshaling an even wider body of opinion. Calling the NATO attackers "crusaders" set the tone, as did the assertion, common in all the bombings, that NATO was lying when it identified the Brega target as a "command-and-control" center for pro-Qaddafi forces.
But the funeral itself seemed strangely flat, at least in political terms. For one thing, despite the location being broadcast on Libyan state television, and circulated in cellphone text messages, barely 500 people showed up, in a city of two million. No important government officials attended. For all the browbeating directed at foreign reporters by mourners who vowed their love for Colonel Qaddafi and their hatred for NATO, the event, taken as a whole, seemed underwhelming.
Part of the problem lay in the contradictions and uncertainties that flowed from official accounts, and those given by the mourners.
According to officials, the nine coffins, with bodies wrapped in the green of Islam, were those of the dead Muslim clerics. But some mourners offered differing counts. Two men whispered that their uncles, among those being buried, were soldiers, and one of those said the man concerned had been dead for weeks. Another identified one of the dead as a driver.
There was a man who said that he was in the guesthouse when it was attacked, and that 7 of the group of 16 he had led to the Brega gathering from Sirte, Colonel Qaddafi's hometown, had been killed, 4 of them imams. The man, who identified himself as Attiya Ali Ahmed, 25, appeared to have suffered no injury in the attack. He said that the gathering had been called for a public reading of the Koran and to rally morale in Brega against the rebels, and that he had seen no sign of any military activity in or near the guesthouse. And he warned reporters to accurately convey his account.
"The Koran does not permit anything but the truth," he said.


Nostalgia is now a key strategic consideration for business and retail. The marketisation of our fondness for a remembered past has stimulated the endless reboots of 1980s movie classics and children's television series, the remarketing of retro videogames and even the re-appreciation of vintage commercials.
Beyond providing us with emotional access to objects and things from our previous and personal "lived" experiences, there are also aspects of today's "retro revolution" that appeal to imagined experiences of a more distant past. This has been particularly evident in our desires to find inspiration when it comes to eating.
The BBC's Back in Time for Dinner and Back in Time for Christmas are examples of consumer curiosity to seek out, understand and rediscover forgotten ways of eating and drinking.
As we approach Christmas, it seems that our insatiable curiosity – and desire – for more real, more authentic, and more fun than even that which we are personally familiar with might mean looking past the Christmas dinner of our own memories to that of the ancestral memory instead.
For many, the contemporary British Christmas dinner conjures up images of turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, gravy, pigs in blankets, sprouts, pudding and, of course, the copious festive tubs of chocolates. The instantly recognisable blend of features of the Christmas dinner are so essential to the holiday experience that they have been appropriated by various businesses on the high street – whether it is Greggs' Festive Bakes, Subway's Festive Feast Sub or Pret A Manger's Christmas Lunch sandwiches.
The very special, moreish (and mass marketed) nature of the contemporary "taste of Christmas" echoes the work of psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the dynamics of "surplus-enjoyment" and insatiable, bottomless desire.
It is conceivable that Christmas dinner has become for many, what Žižek might call, "the Real Thing".
It is not so much that the taste of Christmas dinner has become iconic, or that the food itself satisfies us like no other. It is what Christmas dinner represents – happiness, togetherness, material abundance. These are the "real" things which we can never have too much of and we are forever trying to fill ourselves up with.
As a consequence, people often find themselves always wanting more over the festive period. Ultimately, this insatiability culminates in the copiousness and lavishness of the Christmas Day feast. Though this often is not the end, thanks to the leftovers. And we are destined to recreate the feast without fail every year afterwards. Some might even wish that it could be Christmas every day, as it were.
The notion of a pure surplus of enjoyment surrounding Christmas dinner could mean that enjoyment of it is premised on a ceaseless quest to realise and quench abstract desires. While we might have everything and more right now for a great Christmas dinner, that is still never quite good enough.
The changes catalysed by the Victorians are not just seen in their foods of choice but also in accompaniments they introduced to the dinner table (the Christmas cracker,for example). They constructed Christmas dinner as a way of signifying conviviality, playfulness and community – a way of staging desire.
Before Victorian times, feasting at Christmas served a more raucous and crude means of breaking up the hardship and scarcity of the cold winter months. In the late Middle Ages and Tudor England for example, the feasting during Christmas time may have often been organised less elaborately around various pies, whatever game birds were in availability, or the meat of livestock that could not overwinter and needed to be culled. There may also have been a great divide between what the rich and the poor ate during Yuletide Feasting.
To tap into consumers' insatiable desire for more fun, more authentic and more real festive experiences The National Trust has promoted the opportunity to experience a historic Christmas where visitors can enjoy a period-specific "Tudor Christmas feast beside a roaring log fire".
Various businesses provide full-service catering based on authentic Victorian-themed food, tea carts and props – and a host of restaurants now offer "Victorian Christmas" menus and themed dining experiences. Elsewhere, the BBC and The Telegraph each provide DIY guides "to making your very own Victorian Christmas".
The taste of modern Christmas as we know it now certainly fills us up. But ultimately it never fully satisfies consumer desire. We forever want more and consumers might slowly be realising that this little bit extra might not be available to them in the present but rather lies buried in the past ready for excavation.


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Lutheran Bible Translators
We were blessed to have a returning son of Zion, Michael Ersland, speak during Bible study on July 5. Michael works with Lutheran Bible Translators (LBT), and will be going to Zambia next spring, where he will primarily be working in Bible translation.
Through this ministry, Michael hopes to bring the whole Bible to peoples in languages they can fully understand, their "heart language," their mother tongue. Michael was drawn to the international mission field during his teen years, and has spent time in Botswana, which affirmed his missionary spirit and his call to the mission field. He pointed out that of about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, nearly 2,000 do not have translated Scripture.
The mission of LBT is to help bring people to faith in Jesus Christ by making the Word of God available to those who do not yet have it in the language of their hearts. Since 1964, LBT has been working to make the Word of God accessible to those who do not yet have it. To date, they have helped publish four Bibles and 40 New Testaments.
Michael is the nephew of Bill and Laura Deardoff, and lived here while attending Concordia High School. He attended Zion, participated in the youth group, and worked at VBS and Midweek. He attended Concordia University in Mequon, Wisconsin and completed his BA in Biblical Languages and Missions in 2014. He recently finished his graduate courses and is now traveling the US asking for prayer and financial support.
There are "Supporting A Missionary" information brochures in the narthex with Michael's story.
You can help Michael by becoming a prayer partner or a financial partner through LBT. Learn more, and become a partner, at www.lbt.org. You can make a secure donate at http://us.lbt.org/donate/ and contribute to the Ersland Ministry. In the Contact Information section for "Apply Donation To" enter "Ersland Ministry" so that the funds are directed to Michael's ministry.
You can also get updates from Michael on Facebook on his Ersland Updates page.
Published: 06 July 2015 06 July 2015


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Ivory Heaven Antiques
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Museum Quality Dieppe Carved Ivory Cameo Brooch
"Song of Bernadette"
This is a truly amazing find! Large Dieppe carved ivory cameo brooch, depicting a young woman with a bird. I was struck by its beauty at an instant; somehow, the woman's face reminded me of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, France. Like most avid collectors, I had my mind set on acquiring this beautiful piece. If you are not familiar with Saint Bernadette, there is a web of information on this one of the most revered figures of the Catholic Church. The story of St. Bernadette was played on screen by Jennifer Jones in a movie called "The song of Bernadette". Though the movie isn't accurate, it was a deeply moving interpretation of the short life of St. Bernadette. The young woman in the carving has a serene expression, holding a chalice while a dove is drinking from it. Of course, dove has always been a symbol of purity, and so is the woman in the carving. Her plain costume is only accented by a string of pearls, yet this young woman possesses such grace that transcends her apart from this world. The brooch is in pristine condition which is somewhat miraculous for a subject this old. The back of the brooch is even more unique. Ivory carvings are usually unsigned; signed piece are quite rare. The ones that were signed usually signed with simplest initials of the carvers. This piece was signed at the back with an extremely elaborate initials "M.S.", which I have never seen on other pieces. I don't believe these were the initials of the carver since that's just not common practice. Most likely, these were the initials of the young woman in the carving. Maybe it was just a coincidence, these initials matched Saint Marie-Bernarde Soubirous. Or this could very well be some young woman named after St. Bernadette. The carving and the initials were so meticulously executed, I don't think it was supposed to be a souvenir. Whoever possesseed the brooch had to be someone very special. Whatever the speculation, this is an unmistakable museum quality carving. The size is 2 1/2" by 2 1/4".


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Posted on February 9, 2008 by Ed McNulty
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 1; L- 3; S/N-6 . Running time: 2 hours 3 min..
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to
do and fails to do it, commits sin.
2008 The Weinstein Co.
Kate Winslet's performance as Hannah Schmitz, once a guard at a Nazi extermination camp, is the main reason for seeing this film. The first part, set in the early 1950s, includes a great amount of nudity, the woman becoming involved in a love affair with the teenaged student Michael Berg (David Kross). They meet by accident when the sick bow throws up in the entryway to her apartment and she invites him upstairs to clean up. Soon Michael is spending as much time at her apartment as at school. However, Hanna seems more interested in having Michael read to her than in sex.
After a summer of lust and reading, their affair is terminated by Hannah's sudden departure from her apartment. The film shifts to years later, long after their break-up when Michael (now played by Ralph Fiennes) is studying law, and his professor takes the class to witness a trial of a group of women who had been SS guards at Auschwitz and are now charged with aiding in the murder of 300 Jewish prisoners. Michael is surprised that Hannah is one of these, but tells no one. Unlike the other women, she admits to her guilt, though not to being their leader. The other former guards insist that she was the one who headed up the group that selected prisoners to be sent to be gassed. Michael suddenly realizes why she could not have been in charge of the group, but will he come forward, thus saving her from a far more severe sentence than she deserves?
For reflection/Discussion Spoilers follow.
1. How is the first half of the film just another coming of age story? Did you wonder about Hannah's desire always to have Michael read to her?
2. What do you think of Hannah's defense that the guards had no choice in the selection of the prisoners for extermination? What choice did she have? We are not shown whether she was swept up in the Hitler adulation and the prevalent anti-Semitism: how does this impair our understanding of her situation? What do you think of her question to the judge and his silence? What would you have done in her situation?
3. What do you think of Michael's silence? How is he as guilty as she? How does she show at the trial that she, unlike the other women, is assuming responsible for her role in the death of the Jews? How does An Folman deal with a similar theme in Waltzing Bashir, this time ironically it being Jews involved in failing to do much to stop a barbaric slaughter?
4. How could Michael's subsequent actions be seen as a form of atonement?
5. What is Rose Mather/Ilana Mather's (Lena Olin) reaction to Michael's visiting her with Hannah's journal? Why do you think she cannot offer forgiveness? Are there some crimes too awful that they cannot be forgiven, perhaps left to the mercy of God?
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